{"id":73,"date":"2008-07-24T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-07-24T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:20:53","slug":"crockpots-and-slow-cookers-why-are-they-sitting-in-the-back-bottom-cupboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/crockpots-and-slow-cookers-why-are-they-sitting-in-the-back-bottom-cupboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockpots and Slow Cookers\u2014Why Are They Sitting in the Back Bottom Cupboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is perfect:<span> <\/span>throw a few ingredients into a stoneware crock, turn it on and voila!<span> <\/span>At the end of the day, you walk in the kitchen and there waits a richly aromatic meal, all cooked and ready to go.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For a lot of people, the great crockpot dream comes true all the time.<span> <\/span>But it seems that for an equally good number of us, it\u2019s more dream than reality.<span> <\/span>Of course we all have crockpots, we clearly see their advantages, we <em>want <\/em>to use them, but we don\u2019t.<span> <\/span>Hopefully, this blog series will be of some help.<\/p>\n<h3>Crockpot or slow cooker?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">First off, let\u2019s get the terminology right:<span> <\/span>\u201cCrock-Pot\u201d is actually the brand name for the slow cooker created by the Rival Company.<span> <\/span>\u201cSlow cooker\u201d is the correct generic term for these devices.<span> <\/span>It\u2019s kind of like \u201cKleenex\u201d and \u201cfacial tissues.\u201d<span> <\/span>So in fairness to the Rival folks, we\u2019ll use the correct generic name.<\/p>\n<h3>Isn\u2019t the middle of summer the wrong time to talk about slow cookers?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Seems like it, but one of my clients alerted me otherwise.<span> <\/span>She loves her slow cooker in the summer because it doesn\u2019t heat up the house.<span> <\/span>The fact is, even in summer we eat hot cooked meals, so what if they\u2019ve been cooked in a slow cooker instead of a saut\u00e9 pan?<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also, if you\u2019re serious about taking advantage of your slow cooker, there\u2019s some getting ready to be done. Start gravitating that way now and there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ll be ready when the weather begins to cool.  The next blog will talk about getting ready for slow cooking. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is perfect: throw a few ingredients into a stoneware crock, turn it on and voila! At the end of the day, you walk in the kitchen and there waits a richly aromatic meal, all cooked and ready to go.  So why are so many slow cookers sitting in the cupboard instead of cooking on the counter?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2,3],"tags":[152,353,530],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organize-your-kitchen-for-health","category-healthy-cooking-basics","category-the-right-equipment-for-healthy-cooking","tag-crockpots","tag-kitchen-appliances","tag-slow-cookers","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}